The failure affected the western part of the coastal Alps. After this sabotage, the electricity transmission network (RTE) disconnected the line to enable intervention. Everything returned to normal, around 16:45 and, as the organizers assured, the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival scheduled for 19:00 on Saturday, will take place “in normal conditions” – writes “Le Monde”.
Prosecutor Grasse Damien Savarzeix in an interview with Agence France-Presse pointed out that three of the four pillars of the high voltage pole supplying the city “were cut off”. Pylon located in Villeneuve-Loubet (Seaside Alps) was “seriously damaged.” “Contrary to what is being said, the purpose of the attack was only one pylon,” emphasized Damien Savarzeix from the VAR Prefecture.
Cutting the line indirectly caused a power outage, which affected 160 thousand. houses in the western part of the region of the coastal Alps.
A fire at a high voltage station
According to preliminary findings, at night a fire broke out at the Tanneron high -voltage station, whose ground, according to preliminary findings, was criminal. The fire entity was also the Tanneron power station, the prefecture said.
The fire broke out around 2.00 at night, and its extinguishing managed to master at 7.00 in the morning thanks to the intervention of seven units and twenty firefighters. According to the source in the gendarmerie, the incident caused an initial power outage in the city of Cannes from 2:50 to 3:30 in the morning.
The Festival Palace in Cannes “switched to an independent power supply system”, which will allow you to continue all events and shows planned for Saturday. However, the shows in Cannes, planned in Cineum, independent cinema in Palais, “were interrupted and will resume as soon as the power is restored,” the festival organizers said.
According to the spokesman for the city of Cannes, several other cities in the western region also suffered the seaside alps, such as Mandelieu-La-Napoule, Vallauris and Théoule-Sur-Mer.
